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The AI Trade Is Coming for the Boring Part of Your Portfolio
Big Tech is diversifying its lenders globally. Investors can end up with more of the same companies on both sides of their portfolio.
Some personal notes and essays from The Forward Curve, where I cover the finance, AI, and what’s getting repriced.
Big Tech is diversifying its lenders globally. Investors can end up with more of the same companies on both sides of their portfolio.
Embedded teams can move AI into production quickly. The buyout return depends on whether the capability survives the next owner.
Open weights are helping firms turn institutional judgment into models they can control. Every claim of ownership still carries a supplier underneath it.
AI can now answer buyers and move loan data into official books. When something breaks, the firm needs to show who approved what.
Wall Street can finance the AI buildout. The harder task is keeping contracts and GPU economics alive for the length of the debt.
The courage to be honestly bad at something than to feign competence.
100% of private credit firms plan to adopt AI. Only 2% have the governance infrastructure to make it work.
First post to round out 2024.
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